Photos

Masks

Often photos contain parts which should not be used in the final panorama (e.g. moving objects);
alternatively you may need to specifically include a distinctive feature (e.g. persons) in the final panorama.

The Masks tab allows you to mask these areas for inclusion or exclusion from the stitched panorama.

Control Points

Hugin stitches panoramas by matching identical features in different
overlapping photos. These features are defined by pairs of control points.
The Control Points tab shows two photos at a time and allows
you to manually create and edit any pair of control points.

In addition to the Control Points tab, the Control Points table
is used to manage pairs of control points.

Control points can be created automatically in the Align section
of the Assistant tab or with the Feature Matching section
of the Photos tab.

Optimiser

If you look at the partial screen on showing the Tabs you do not see the Hugin Optimiser tab. This is because the Optimiser tab is only displayed when using the Custom parameters for Geometric Optimisation on the Photos tab.

Exposure

If you look at the partial screen on showing the Tabs you do not see the Hugin Exposure tab. This is because the Exposure tab is only displayed when using the Custom parameters for Photometric Optimisation on the Photos tab.

Stitcher

The end result of a Hugin project is an image file containing a panorama. The final Stitcher tab is where size and quality are set and where this output file is created.

Write PTStitcher script saves a simplified project file suitable for batch stitching with PTStitcher, nona or PTmender. Note that nona can stitch a Hugin project file directly, so this step is unnecessary when using nona.